All the things you have mentioned definitely have a place here.............on
Friday at the very least. I mean, after all, we gotta have some fun on this
list  as well!!!

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

mike miller wrote:

> Sounds correct to me.  Just don't mention guns, gun control, politics,
> religion, sex, [well, OK, mention sex], government control/interference, the
> south, the north, the east, the Kiwis, the Aussies, or anything beginning
> with a letter and you'll be OK.
>
> Mike
> Still screaming in frustration trying to move Quicken records from IBM to
> MAC.  May they both roast in hell, or San Bernardino, same thing.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Rodgers <jhrodgers@CHARTER.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 6:06 PM
> Subject: Re: i started this stupid Thing thread....
>
> > The list membership is pretty good about policing its own ranks, and when
> things get
> > out of hand the membership recognizes it and says something about it,
> usually
> > sufficient to the point that in the old days, Coyote (newbies probably
> don't know
> > him), our previous moderator, would kill the thread. If it was truly
> obnoxious, he
> > wouldn't wait, and using his own judgment would kill a thread. That is
> what he was
> > there to do. And if someone was truly a butt about things Coyote would
> deal with
> > him/her) as well, usually in the form of banishment from the list. And Tom
> > Carrington, present moderator(pehaps not the correct choice of word here)
> does the
> > same thing occasionally. But pretty much overall the list stays centered
> and it moves
> > along. Only when a topic really starts moving off in the wrong direction
> and doesn't
> > stick to the rules within reasonable bounds does any action have to be
> taken.
> >
> > John Rodgers
> > 88 GL Driver
> >
> >
> >
> > "jay m." wrote:
> >
> > > ...and now i'm ending it.
> > >
> > > okay, this is getting ridiculous.
> > >
> > > i've been on this list for about a year, often contributing privately,
> > > almost never contributing (or asking questions) publicly.  as so many
> > > other people have pointed out, people on the list hold an amazing volume
> > > of knowledge about vanagons, other VWs, and vehicles in general.  and
> they
> > > feel free to share that knowledge, whether it's about VWs, Audis,
> > > Porsches, or even those guys with the Econoline and the Suburban.
> > >
> > > so, in my opinion, my short, to-the-point email asking for advice about
> > > another type of VW should be acceptable.  if nothing else it's at least
> as
> > > acceptable as email about campgrounds, rest area murders (two recent
> > > threads), not to mention the old repetitive threads that we've seen over
> > > and over again (discussions about vendors, tires, bike racks, guns in
> > > vanagons, whatever).
> > >
> > > i clearly stated the subject of the email.  if you aren't interested,
> > > delete it.  it's not that hard.
> > >
> > > it's interesting that i got about 15 private and a couple public
> responses
> > > from people about the Thing.  in contrast, there's been a flood of
> public
> > > posts ranting about whether the email is off-topic.  is that really how
> > > you feel like spending your energy?  the complaints have created much
> more
> > > clutter than the original question and responses.
> > >
> > > okay.  now i'm done.  i'm staying on the list, but i have a much lower
> > > opinion of some of you than i did before.
> > >
> > > --jay
> > >
> > > ps- thanks for everybody that offered information.  it was a good
> > > supplement to the research that i had already done.
> > >
> > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Leon Korkin wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This is strange that somebody asking for info on Thing can not do
> simple search
> > > > on Thing and get more info then he can read in a month directly from
> people
> > > > driving Thing and knowing Thing so we are again littering
> > > > the list with useless mail to delete...
> > > > Leon
> > > > 85 Subwagen Westy
> >